When frustrated by tweens, layers, buttons and action script, it helps to look toward the end goal. Which, if your project isn’t working, is often hard to do. It’s when facing the all nighter in the computer lab, that I try to think about all the amazing things I would one day like to be able to do with Flash. Although there are countless uses for Flash projects, being a former newspaper page designer, I gravitate to interactive graphics.

Here are a few of the examples I found:

Here’s a real-world use of the moving timeline and buttons we worked on in class.